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Turn to the Native
(1996)
The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism," the ambiguous position of non-Native ...
Great Father
(1986)
The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure ...
New Perspectives on Native North America
(2006)
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological ...
Encounters of the Spirit
(2007)
Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including ...
The Daring Trader
(2012)
A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his ...
Death Stalks the Yakama
(1997)
Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the ...
Ambiguous Justice
(2006)
In 1769, Spain took action to solidify control over its northern New World territories by establishing a series of missions and presidios in what is now modern California. To populate these remote establishments, the Spanish ...
After the Bloodbath
(2019)
As violence in the United States seems to become increasingly more commonplace, the question of how communities reset after unprecedented violence also grows in significance. After the Bloodbath examines this quandary, ...
Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York.
(1964)
This is the first complete English translation of Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York by Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur. It presents the rich reflections and tales of an 18th-century ...
Faith in Paper
(2011)
Faith in Paper is about the reinstitution of Indian treaty rights in the Upper Great Lakes region during the last quarter of the 20th century. The book focuses on the treaties and legal cases that together have awakened a ...
Indian Names in Michigan
(1986)
Indian Names in Michigan traces the origin of hundreds of place-names given to counties, towns, lakes, rivers, and topographical features of the Great Lakes State. These melodic names that enrich our appreciation for the ...
After Wounded Knee
(1996)
The Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890, known to U.S. military historians as the last battle in "the Indian Wars," was in reality another tragic event in a larger pattern of conquest, destruction, killing, and ...
The Land Between the Rivers
(2004)
An adventure story from the wilds of early America, The Land between the Rivers recreates the journeys of the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, one of American history's most well-traveled scientists. During the early ...
Ohiyesa
(1999)
Charles Eastman, or "Ohiyesa" in Santee, came of age during a period of increasing tension and violence between Native and "new" Americans. Raised to become a hunter-warrior, he was nevertheless persuaded by his Christianized ...
Newspaper Indian
(1999)
Newspapers catalyzed public opinion in the nineteenth century, and the press's coverage and practices shaped the representation of Native Americans for white audiences. John M. Coward delves into the complex ways journalism ...
Songprints
(1995)
Songprints explores the musical lives of Native American women as they navigate a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shoshone of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. Judith Vander captures the distinct ...
Reginald and Gladys Laubin, American Indian Dancers
(2000)
Friends and cultural historians of many Indian families among the Sioux, Crow, and Shoshone-Bannock, Reginald and Gladys Laubin devoted their lives to preserving a vanishing culture by presenting authentic Indian dances, ...
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum
(1996)
Created in collaboration with students and community members from the Zuni Pueblo and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, this curriculum addresses key issues in Native American Indian adolescents' lives and teaches such life ...
Indian Culture and European Trade Goods
(1966)
In an absorbing account of the archaeology and culture of Indian tribes in the Great Lakes region from 1600 to 1820, George Quimby recounts the results of decades of careful study of archaeological sites in this 1966 classic.
Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900
(2007)
This landmark anthology is an essential guide to the histories of Native women's lives in earlier centuries. Sixteen classic essays, plus new commentary—many by the original authors, describe a broad range of research ...
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
(2007)
A comprehensive encyclopedia of Indians of the Great Plains, past and present.
Inside Dazzling Mountains
(2013)
This collection of new translations of Native oral literatures features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. ...
Native Americans and the Environment
(2007)
Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue the conversations that Shepard Krech started. The essays examine topics as divergent as Pleistocene ...
1870 Ghost Dance
(2007)
Cora Du Bois' historical study, The 1870 Ghost Dance, has remained an essential contribution to the ethnographic record of Native Californian cultures for seven decades yet is only now readily available for the first time. ...
Native American Representations
(2001)
From Columbus's journal jottings about "Indios" to the image of Sacagawea on the dollar coin, from the marauding Indians portrayed in the traditional western to the appearance of Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, ...
Toward a Native American Critical Theory
(2003)
Toward a Native American Critical Theory articulates the foundations and boundaries of a distinctive Native American critical theory in this postcolonial era. In the first book-length study devoted to this subject, Elvira ...
Killing Us Quietly
(2001)
Over the past five centuries, waves of diseases have ravaged and sometimes annihilated Native American communities. The latest of these silent killers is HIV/AIDS. The first book to detail the devastating impact of the ...
Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850
(2003)
Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. For the ...
The Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi
(1972)
From August of 1933 to March 1933, Mischa Titiev lived among the Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi, an ancient pueblo of the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. A trained anthropologist, Dr. Titiev was adopted into ...
American Pentimento
(2001)
American Pentimento traces the history of colonization and exploitation in the Americas coming to demonstrate how contemporary native struggles are decisively limited by embedded cultural assumptions this history has ...
Indian Slavery in Colonial America
(2010)
The essays in this collection use the complicated dynamics of Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.
This Benevolent Experiment
(2015)
This Benevolent Experiment is a nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have ...
Tears of Repentance
(2013)
Tears of Repentance reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing ...
Newspaper Warrior
(2015)
The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about ...
On Records
(2012)
Bridging the fields of indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial ...
Blind Man and the Loon
(2013)
The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, ...
American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006
(2010)
Roberta Ulrich provides a concise overview of all the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes from 1953 to 2006 and explores the enduring policy implications for Native peoples. This is the first book to ...
Redskins
(2016)
C. Richard King provides an in-depth examination of how the ongoing struggle over the Washington NFL franchise name raises questions about popular perceptions of American Indians, the cultural life of consumer brands, and ...
Call for Change
(2013)
An impassioned call to the history discipline to change the way they write and think about Native Americans.
Invisible Genealogies
(2001)
Invisible Genealogies is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many American anthropologists has called for an "experimental moment" grounded ...